I personally could care less. I've never been one to try and be anybody but myself. If someone judges me for gambling, then I judge them for being judgmental (oh the irony lol). My gambling doesn't negatively effect anyone on this planet. I also don't have a gambling issue what so ever, so it's just not a huge deal if someone sees this as a negative for myself.
One don't have to care much about what people think about us when we gamble. There is a whole reason why we decided to start gambling so we don't have to care much about the outside would on there say about us. We can gamble as much as we like but we should know that everything is dependent on us and the result we long for. When we don't care about what people say about us as a gambler, we would also know that some people might be right about us and may be trying to help us out especially our family members trying to make us stay away from gambling to reduce our gambling addictions.
I like your tactic @ChiBitCTy, that's a nice counter for the judgmental people. As long as we are not stepping on someone else, we are not hurting anybody, and we are responsible enough that our family always has food on the table then I think we are good. Whatever they say, it won't matter to us because we know to ourselves that we are doing well and gambling is just part of our entertainment to avoid those gossipers.
I mean, it's actually better, we are not outside doing nonsense or talking about other people, we stay at home in silence, we play our game, and we enjoy it.
You know what? I think they are just jealous that even if we stay at home we can still entertain ourselves, we don't need anything else, and yet outside it looks like we are too busy with something else.
Some people cannot swallow the fact that somebody is better than them which is why they will do everything in their mouthful power to undermine those types of people who are ignoring them.
I know it because I have neighbors who talk a lot, mostly the old women who think they are better or they just don't have anything else to do in their life that is why they are trying to pull down people using their gossip. That's why I don't share anything with anyone, it's scary because it's like a pandemic that would scatter fast.